Pink Bees Internalized Racism

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When the article talked about Personally-mediated racism the example is present when the gardener started to see pink flowers as inferior to red, and started to cut them before they blossomed. If compared with the film, black people was mistreated, accused and abused when something was wrong in the society. If any black person raised their voice at that time, would be end up death or in jail. The Internalized racism is stated when a pink flower saying to an approaching bee, "Don't bring me any of that pink pollen - I prefer the red!" (Jones, Aug 2000), because they think they were inferior to red flowers. In the film when the writer started to ask the maids for their opinion, they stated that was not a problem, that they were used to the

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